About

Team

Votifi is run by a team of people who are passionate about politics and technology. We have built and operated successful businesses. We have worked on political campaigns in the United States and around the world. We are technologists, economists, mathematicians and lawyers. Collectively we are conservative, liberal, progressive and libertarian. We have diverse upbringings and represent many of the different political parties, religious affiliations, cultural and ethnic backgrounds that you find across America. We are proud of where we came from and believe that our diverse roots are essential in being able to build a company that can understand and provide deep insights into the diversity of this nation today and into the future. The team that built Votifi are the founders of Discourse Analytics and more information about them is available here.

MANAGEMENT

Lou Aronson

Lou is the founder and CEO of VOTIFI. Lou worked on his first political campaign going door to door at the ripe old age of 7. Since then he has stayed involved in politics for both Democrats and Republicans. And, in all his years of voting he takes pride in never "pulling the straight party lever." After more than 20 years practicing law Lou created Votifi because as a believer in the power of the democracy and he knew technology had a way to improve the relationships between not just politicians and constituents but voters across "party lines" by making us all more connected not less connected. Lou is married and a father of 4. Lou is a member of the Mindshare Class of 2012, a graduate of The University of Michigan and The Syracuse University College of Law.

Aasil is a co-founder and COO of VOTIFI. Aasil has worked in politics both here in the US and in Asia for the better part of the past 10 years. He has developed and executed technology strategies to help grassroots campaigns leverage mobile and social platforms to gain support and votes. Aasil sees the great potential in enabling individuals to find their voice through technology and its potential reformative power of democracy and antiquated institutions or methodologies. Aasil is married. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and has postponed graduate school to launch this laboratory for democracy.

Sid is a co-founder and VP of Strategy for VOTIFI. Sid has spent the last 17 years as a lawyer representing emerging growth companies and investors, and currently serves as general counsel to Syncom Venture Funds, one of the oldest and most successful African-American venture capital firms in the United States. A disaffected democrat who worked in New Jersey politics for several years, Sid believes that technology offers a unique way to democratize information, empower voters and enable otherwise disenfranchised communities to have a meaningful voice in the political process . Sid is a married father of 2. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Email: sid at votifi dot com

Vijay Perincherry

Vijay is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of VOTIFI. Vijay has been solving problems involving predictability, behavioral patterns and risk for the better part of the past 25 years. He is experienced in taking his PhD in applied mathematics and overlaying it across multiple industry sectors from housing, retail, transportation, advertising, bond trading and data management. And, as a voter who always wondered where he fit in and if there were others out there "like him" he developed the cluster based algorithm to help bridge gaps not widen them. Vijay is married and a father of 2. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the University of Delaware.

About

Votifi is a mobile polling and analytics company that facilitates political exploration and network building. We discern user's points of view to facilitate peer-to-peer connections across political and social boundaries. By amplifying people’s voices, Votifi changes the dynamic between elected officials and the public. We are your own personal, virtual, mobile soapbox for political engagement.